Contents tagged with SharePoint
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Custom Edit Forms for SharePoint 2007 Lists
What a coincidence: last week a student asked a question that I couldn’t answer straight away and probably at the same time somebody posted a blog post solving the question! The question was how to customize the edit form that you get when you create or edit a list item in a SharePoint 2007 list (EditForm.aspx). In SharePoint 2003 you could do this trick by editing the page in FrontPage 2003, when your right clicked on the control on the page you could actually break the control into different controls. Optimistically I tried to do the same thing in the SharePoint Designer, although the right click menu didn’t show to option that I was looking for (there went my street credibility for that course :-) ). Kristian Kalsing explains it on this blog post how this works in the 2007 world:
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MOSS 2007 Training @ Lisbon, Portugal Pictures
Last week I did a Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 Course at the Microsoft Portugal Campus in Lisbon. The training room was pretty crowded: more than 30 enthusiastic students! Even though it was a public holiday on Wednesday in Portugal (and in Belgium) everybody showed up, thanks everybody! Anyway there were some avid readers (even some fans!) of my blog that asked to post some pictures of the course. So here they are! Kudos go to everybody that was involved: it was a great week!
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Tech Ed: Developers, I’m there!
Yesterday evening I arrived with my pal Patrick in the beautiful city of Barcelona for Microsoft Tech Ed: Developers. The complete U2U team will be present and we will have a boot as well. Make sure to drop by to say hi, and maybe get one of the beloved U2U goodies (say that Jan sent you).
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Wow, it has been a long time since my last blog post! For those of you wondering: your browser is not broken since my blog displayed the same page for more than 2 months, I’m still alive and kicking, I’m not stuck in China and I’m still knee-deep in Information Worker technologies at U2U. Those guys have kept my really busy the last couple of months and made it possible to travel to lots of great cities to “evangelize” the 2007 Microsoft Office System: Zurich, Dubai, Jeddah, Lisbon, … Thanks for all the people attending the gigs, it was great to show you around in Office 2007!
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Workflow Developer Starter Kit for WSS v3 + More
Fresh new goodies on the Microsoft Download site:
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Try Office 2007 Online: Beta 2 Test Drive
Sure the 2007 Microsoft Office System looks very sexy, but I know lots of people who are quite hesitant to install it on the machine that they use during their everyday life (and they are probably right). So you’d like to try out the beta bits without messing up your main operating system and without the hassle to install and configure the server components, this is for you:
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YASR: Editable List/Document Library Pages
One of the more common things to customize in SharePoint 2003 (both WSS and SPS) are the pages that display lists or document libraries. Users end up on those pages when they click on the list/document library in the Quick Launch, or on the web part title that’s displaying the list/document library data. Those pages can be customized but you need to build your own site definition or you need to use FrontPage.
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Office 2007 Train-the-Trainers Course at Brussels
This week we had the pleasure to organize a first Train-the-Trainers (TTT) course on the 2007 Microsoft Office System at U2U in Brussels. It was a very international group; 18 passionate trainers coming from all over the world: Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, Austria, Chechia, Russia, Litva, Marocco. Of course we took the opportunity to show them the touristic side of Brussels as well and let them enjoy some Belgian beers. You can see some pictures over here (scroll down to "Office Development and SharePoint 2007 Train-The-Trainer at U2U"). It was great teaching you guys, and I want to wish you all the luck for your trainings!
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YASR: User Account Look-Ups in SharePoint 2007
Sometimes a very small feature in SharePoint 2007 can mean a big relief for SharePoint users. Do you know the “pain” to add a user to a SharePoint site for example: you need to know the exact account name or the email address. One small typing mistakes will result in an unrecognized user. In the next version of SharePoint this scenario is drastically improved, and resembles a lot the experience that you get in Outlook.
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YASR: Alerts in SharePoint 2007
One of the more popular quirk in SharePoint 2003 (remember the YASQ’s?) was the alerting mechanism. The alerts in SharePoint 2003 are OK at first sight: you can create an alert for a complete list or document library, or just for one item. The problem is that you can only create an alert for yourself. This makes sense if you think of alerts as ‘RSS-avant-la-lettre’. But lots of people would like to create alerts for other users as well. Unfortunately this was not available out-of-the-box, although you could customize SharePoint by installing various (free) web parts to overcome this issue.